@policingblack.bsky.social

Thank you 🙏🏾. I hope things get better soon.

@shahadelfaki.bsky.social I felt compelled to amplify calls for an arms embargo and no loopholes act in particular.

This was hard for me because I generally want Canada and everyone else to just keep their hands off Sudan and find interacting with the state to often be too interventionist. Given that Canadian weapons have recently been found in the possession of the RSF through a story investigated by

thé second civil war (war agst the south) in the late 90s. Not to mention Dickens and Madsen and the Canadian Streit and Sterling Cross companies whose weapons have landed in the hands of the RSF…I was like sir don’t be acting all Canada innocent.

I had to remind one of the senators today that Canadian companies have long been complicit in state violence in Sudan since the late 90s, Lundin and Talisman to name a few who funded the Bashir regime to « clear » oil concession fields in the South during the bloodiest phase of

Bill C-233 amends the Export and Import Permit Act and eliminates the US loophole that allows arms exports to the US to bypass review, thus allowing Canadian weapons to be rerouted to Israel and Darfur/Sudan.